2023-05-07: News Headlines

Nancy Fraser, Red Pepper. (2023-05-07). Resisting Cannibal Capitalism. popularresistance.org It is increasingly common to hear of crises — economic, environmental and/or racial — in which the vast majority of the global population are confined to substandard living conditions while a global elite accrues wealth at a horrifying pace. There is a widespread sense that something has to give, that the world cannot continue on its current path. Of course, this is often the cry emanating from movements on the streets and detailed in the pages of Intergovernmental Panels on Climate Change (IPCC) reports but these often fall on the deaf ears of those in power. So what exactly has to change and how do…

Guillermo Castillo Ramírez (2023-05-06). La centralidad de los migrantes en el estudio de los procesos de movilidad humana transfronteriza. globalizacion.ca En el contexto del desarrollo del neoliberalismo y como parte de los procesos de expansión espacial de la globalización, las migraciones internacionales han sido una de las expresiones de los procesos de desigualdad y exclusión social del capitalismo contemporáneo. | Las…

Colin Todhunter (2023-05-06). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

ecns.cn (2023-05-07). Xi stresses building of modern industrial system and high-quality population development. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, chairman of the Central Military Commission and director of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs (CCFEA), presided over the first meeting of the commission under the 20th CPC Central Committee on Friday afternoon.

thecommunists (2023-05-07). US imperialism's militarisation of Taiwan. thecommunists.org Washington is continuing to escalate tensions with China as part of its new cold war, with last month the deployment of 200 additional troops to Taiwan. According to unnamed US officials, the soldiers will be tasked with training Taiwan's armed forces against "a rising threat from China". The Pentagon would not be drawn on the …

Juan M. Garcia (2023-05-06). Cuba acknowledges solidarity from French communists. plenglish.com Paris, May 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuban party leader Roberto Morales thanked of the Communist Party of France (CPF) on Saturday for its solidarity and condemnation of the United States blockade, during a meeting in this capital with his national secretary, Fabien Roussel.

Nancy Fraser, Red Pepper. (2023-05-07). Resisting Cannibal Capitalism. popularresistance.org It is increasingly common to hear of crises — economic, environmental and/or racial — in which the vast majority of the global population are confined to substandard living conditions while a global elite accrues wealth at a horrifying pace. There is a widespread sense that something has to give, that the world cannot continue on its current path. Of course, this is often the cry emanating from movements on the streets and detailed in the pages of Intergovernmental Panels on Climate Change (IPCC) reports but these often fall on the deaf ears of those in power. So what exactly has to change and how do…

Guillermo Castillo Ramírez (2023-05-06). La centralidad de los migrantes en el estudio de los procesos de movilidad humana transfronteriza. globalizacion.ca En el contexto del desarrollo del neoliberalismo y como parte de los procesos de expansión espacial de la globalización, las migraciones internacionales han sido una de las expresiones de los procesos de desigualdad y exclusión social del capitalismo contemporáneo. | Las…

Colin Todhunter (2023-05-06). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

ecns.cn (2023-05-07). Xi stresses building of modern industrial system and high-quality population development. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, chairman of the Central Military Commission and director of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs (CCFEA), presided over the first meeting of the commission under the 20th CPC Central Committee on Friday afternoon.

thecommunists (2023-05-07). US imperialism's militarisation of Taiwan. thecommunists.org Washington is continuing to escalate tensions with China as part of its new cold war, with last month the deployment of 200 additional troops to Taiwan. According to unnamed US officials, the soldiers will be tasked with training Taiwan's armed forces against "a rising threat from China". The Pentagon would not be drawn on the …

Juan M. Garcia (2023-05-06). Cuba acknowledges solidarity from French communists. plenglish.com Paris, May 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuban party leader Roberto Morales thanked of the Communist Party of France (CPF) on Saturday for its solidarity and condemnation of the United States blockade, during a meeting in this capital with his national secretary, Fabien Roussel.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-05-07). Breaking barriers: Helping Native Americans in need get the gift of life. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Robert Monroe and Jackie Johnson stand near their home on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona For many American Indians and Alaska Natives, living on an Indian reservation provides a sense of pride, independence, and the ability to maintain cultural and social traditions important to their heritage. Life on the Indian reservation can also mean high rates of poverty, lack of access to food, transportation, communication and health care. Complex medical procedures like an organ…

scorinoco (2023-05-07). The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions. orinocotribune.com By Francisco R. Rodríguez — May 4, 2023 | This paper provides a comprehensive survey and assessment of the literature on the effects of economic sanctions on living standards in target countries. We identify 32 studies that apply quantitative econometric and calibration methods to cross-country and national data in order to assess the impact of economic sanctions on indicators of human and economic development and human rights. Of these, 30 studies find that sanctions have negative effects on outcomes ranging from per capita income to poverty, inequality, mortality, and human rights. We also provide in-depth…

WSWS (2023-05-06). Homeless man strangled to death on New York subway. wsws.org Jordan Neely is the latest victim of the rise in poverty and mental illness that has grown to critical levels as part of the capitalist crisis.

Richard Horton (2023-05-06). Comment] Offline: We must engage in a war of position. thelancet.com Occasionally, someone says something so appalling, so shocking, and so disheartening that you just stop in disbelief. On April 26, 2023, UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman said this: "I think that the people coming here illegally do possess values which are at odds with our country. We are seeing heightened levels of criminality when related to the people who have come on boats related to drug dealing, exploitation, prostitution." Persistent attacks on migrants escaping war, poverty, and insecurity are now normalised in British politics.

Editor (2023-05-06). Catastrophe: The Global Cost of the Ukraine War. scheerpost.com The war has been a disaster for Ukraine, but also a calamity for the world. This brief article provides a concise overview of the war's profound global effects, beginning with the combatants' cost in lives and treasure. Beyond this it assesses the war's impact on global trade and economy; energy and food price inflation and their effects on poverty, hunger, and mortality; the redirection of humanitarian and official development assistance; the total sum of aid to the Ukrainian war effort, and the estimated cost of postwar reconstruction and recovery. Also examined is the war's effect on global defense spending. T…

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